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    powerheads?

    has anyone here ever used JBJ powerheads, a friend of mine uses them and swears by them, he says they're just as good as maxijets, if not better, He told me to go buy a JBJ 2500 for my 55 gallon, it's dual output and pumps 530gph, does anyone have any input on this brand of powerheads?
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    learning about plumbing

    I've been recently reading all the posts here about plumbing a larger tank, and I have to say I'm still confused about all of it :confused:. Where did you all learn about all this. Is there any sites that you know that explain Closed loop systems and others in detail? When it comes to...
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    which janitors should I use

    thanks for the help, I think I'm going to go with nassarius and astraea snails and try out a few scarlet hermit crabs, if they dont work out I will give them away. Something I've always wondered about the crabs is, do they ever try to crawl out of the tank, cause I remember when I had...
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    which janitors should I use

    I've been looking around trying to find out what would be the best cleanup crew to have and how many, for my 30 gallon reef, but there's so many different options. I've heard from some people that hermit crabs are bad and other say they're good, and same goes for the different types of snails...
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    question about algae and cycling

    thanks for the input, when I do water changes, do I just replace the water, or do I vacuum the substrate also? and if I vaccum the sand, will it effect all the little critters that are in there
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    question about algae and cycling

    my 30 gallon is just about cycled with 15lbs. live rock and aragonite sand, 0.0 ammonia, 0.3 nitrite, lots of nitrate, around 50, temp. 78, pH 8.2, SP 1.025, alk 70ppm and calcium 360ppm. I am going to do a water change once my nitrites go down to 0. My sand is completely covered with brown...
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    identity of critter??

    I have another question about something in my tank, I can't get a good look at it, but it sometimes spews white stuff that looks like smoke, anyone know what this might be, thanks in advance
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    stuff growing on live rock??

    I just added live rock about 2 weeks ago, and now I noticed things growing on the outside and was wondering if its coral, they look like little tubes sticking out of the rock with feathers in the ends, sometimes the feathers retract into the tubes, theirs about 20 of them, are they corals, thanks?
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    MH ligting

    what is the diffence between metal halide lighting and halogen ligting that you see in hardware stores that are somewhere around 500 watts? Just a question out of curiousity, thanks
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    cloudiness from substrate

    I just finally got my caribsea aragonite in, the water is really cloudy, I rinsed as much as I could before putting it in, but its still bad, should I turn my filters, powerhead and skimmer off to get rid of it, or will it still clear with them all on. thanks
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    air pumps

    Thanks for the input tom, I want to use the air pump for an airstone in my newly started reef tank, a large air stone for my bucket that I keep the water in for water changes, and I also run on in one of my small 20 gallon freshwater african cichlid tank. The pump I have now will only give...
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    air pumps

    does anyone here use airstones in their aquarium? I currently have a cheap elite 800 air pump that is very loud from vibrations, my pet store carries tetra tech and rena air pumps, r these two brands any good and quiet, or should I order something different online. Thanks in advance:) btw. my...
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    air pumps

    I currently have a small "elite 800" air pump for my 29 gallon tank. I want to get a new pump thats more powerful than this one, (will only run one air stone) I was looking at getting a tetra tec 24 (I think thats the one). are these quiet air pumps?, and do they create alot of vibration? I find...
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    lighting

    thanks for the advice, as far as appearance goes, I don't like the yellow/white colors, unless thats what's used to enhance the fishes colors. I like the blue that the actinics give off, and also the blueish purple that the 18 000K's give off, so is a 6700K full spectrum bulb neccessary for a...
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    lighting

    thanks for the advice, this forum has been great for that, it's helped me alot. do I not need any actinics? and also, my LFS doesn't sell any 10 000k, they just have actinics, 18 000K and actinics. Northern Ontario, Canada, doesn't get much for supplies, LOL, I look to the internet for most of them.
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    lighting

    thanks for the advice, this forum has been great for that, it's helped me alot. do I not need any actinics? and also, my LFS doesn't sell any 10 000k, they just have actinics, 18 000K and actinics. Northern Ontario, Canada, doesn't get much for supplies, LOL, I look to the internet for most of them.
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    lighting

    I have a 29 Gallon with a DIY hood with the capacity for 5 20 Watt fluorescent bulbs. I was wondering which ones and how many of each I should get for a reef. my LFS only sells lights from Hagen so they have marine glo actinics, power glo at 18 000K, aqua glo at 18 000K and life glo at 6700K...
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    questions about starting a saltwater mini reef

    I am in the late planning stages of a saltwater reef aquarium and have some questions before I get it running, first off, I have a 29 gallon tank with a 200W heater, Fluval Plus3 filter, a Zoo-med 226 powerhead, an elite 800 air pump, a seaclone 100 protein skimmer and a DIY hood with the...
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